Note to Eil Þdr 16^III

[5] œgir almtaugar ‘the terrifier of the bow-string [WARRIOR = Geirrøðr]’: From the context it is obvious that this kenning can only refer to Geirrøðr. This is a warrior-kenning and not a giant-kenning, but, as the apposition áttruðr Suðra ‘relative of Suðri <dwarf>’ makes clear, it does not refer to a human warrior. The kenning may have been motivated by occasional references to giants as archers, cf. st. 12/7, where the giants are called skyld-Breta skytju ‘kin-Britons of the markswoman [= Skaði]’ and st. 20/5, where Geirrøðr is referred to as ‘god of the bow’.

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